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« Reply #60 on: October 17, 2017, 09:32:51 pm »
Hahaha, for my grade, it was the total opposite!! You could hear the collective groans and laughter when we all realised that Sadat was specified. It was like everyone's hearts broke just a little bit more LOL
Ahhh so sorry to hear that! But I totally get it, I was the same for a while because I had so much trouble understanding it, but I just had a hunch that it would be specified :P
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« Reply #61 on: October 17, 2017, 09:35:27 pm »
I've got very mixed feelings about this paper. The Mod C People and Landscapes question was beautiful and really easy to manipulate. So was the Mod A Metropolis/1984 question but I had a little freak out on the leadership bit so I just talked about leadership through oppression and how German audiences desired strong and stable leaders unlike the leaders that they had during the Weimar epoch. Essentially I talked about Maria as a leader and juxtaposed this to RoboMaria, Big Brother as a leader with allusions to Stalin, and Fredersen as an oppressive dictator who redeems himself over the course of the film to become a more understanding leader. The Hamlet question was the worst. I barely talked about dramatic form other than soliloquies but I was able to quote 3 critics word for word. I'm not sure how helpful that'll be for marks but oh well. I'll (hopefully) never have to write another Discovery essay/creative or a Shakespeare essay ever again. But hey you guys, WE DID IT!!! WE FINISHED ENGLISH!!! (except for you extension people, my condolences)

I was exactly the same with leadership! I just wasn't expecting that choice of word so I went straight to oppression too. It was hard to not get too caught up with just the way they led but it sounds like you made nice links. The 'leadership' was pretty open to talk about government and leaders of rebellion. And yes, my paragraph about dramatic function was pretty unconvincing 😂

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« Reply #62 on: October 17, 2017, 09:51:23 pm »
Mod A - Metro/ 1984 I was able to mould my memorised essay

Mod B - Yeats - Hard question but i think i answered it

Mod C - Biggest fuck up my, related didn't answer the question - i misinterpreted the question and showed in all my paragraphs how relationships with people and landscapes can be both enriching as well as uneasy, is this okay? Also in my related i only showed enriching  nature of relationships but i kinda clumsily included uneasiness will i get marked down heaps because i know i screwed my related paragraphs up pretty bad

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« Reply #63 on: October 17, 2017, 11:03:53 pm »
I think I did ok (?). I certainly did better in trials, so I'm hoping for like a high Band 4 - low Band 5 (my standards aren't very high.)
The JC/Machiavelli question was absolutely PERFECT for my thesis, so I was extremely excited. Yeats kind of threw me off, but I was able to get back on track eventually. That was probably my worst section. The Crucible was...ok? I didn't really understand the question, so I kind of just manipulated it to what I wanted it to be. Sounds bad, but it wasn't as dodgy as that sounded, lmao.

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« Reply #64 on: October 17, 2017, 11:26:11 pm »
So many people I knew didn't go back over Sadat in their study because they either hated it, or thought that NESA wouldn't specify it because it's the first text in the list. I hope they ended up ok!  ::)

Yeah, that was basically my grade! We all hated Sadat, mainly because of how long the speech was and because it was one of the last ones we studied after the Trials, so most of us weren't bothered to flick back and revise it.

Ahhh so sorry to hear that! But I totally get it, I was the same for a while because I had so much trouble understanding it, but I just had a hunch that it would be specified :P

Lots of people predicted that there wouldn't be a specified poem this year? Based on the previous years' patterns and stuff, but honestly NESA can do whatever and I doubt they really follow a pattern. I thought Atwood would've been specified but nope, it had to be Sadat (:

Oh awesome! Great minds think alike ;D
Which speech did you use to supplement Sadat? I wonder how common our thesis was  ::)

Hopefully our great minds got us great marks too!! ((: I used Keating's Redfern Speech, mainly because it's one of my favourites haha. Which one did you use?
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« Reply #65 on: October 18, 2017, 09:39:50 am »
For Mod C- It talked about a contest
So does it kinda mean a "battle" to undermine competing perspectives as to control the personal perspective of the audience as the "spoils" of a "contest"

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« Reply #66 on: October 18, 2017, 09:49:05 am »
For Mod C- It talked about a contest
So does it kinda mean a "battle" to undermine competing perspectives as to control the personal perspective of the audience as the "spoils" of a "contest"

You can definitely frame it in that sense ;D

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« Reply #67 on: October 18, 2017, 01:09:48 pm »
Think i did well apart from mod B Hamlet- in the rush of the exam i kind of forgot to address that strength/weakness part, but did answer the other parts of the question quite well

I did talk about how it resonates with audiences and exposes the frailties of human nature, I guess that could be strength/weakness but did not explicitly mention it, so silly.......


How much do you think this will affect my mark?

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« Reply #68 on: October 18, 2017, 01:21:55 pm »
Think i did well apart from mod B Hamlet- in the rush of the exam i kind of forgot to address that strength/weakness part, but did answer the other parts of the question quite well

I did talk about how it resonates with audiences and exposes the frailties of human nature, I guess that could be strength/weakness but did not explicitly mention it, so silly.......


How much do you think this will affect my mark?

Sounds like you did well on the whole! Put it into perspective, it might be a couple of marks, for one essay, in one paper, in one subject. Soooo inconsequential. It isn't going to affect your mark in any significant way so I wouldn't be worried at all ;D

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« Reply #69 on: October 18, 2017, 09:38:13 pm »
I am such a bloody idiot. . . I just realised that in my mod c essay I was going on about bloody conflicting perspectives and you're not meant to do that because thats the old syllabus! But competing is kind of like conflicting? Oh sheeet what have I done
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« Reply #70 on: October 18, 2017, 11:48:03 pm »
I am such a bloody idiot. . . I just realised that in my mod c essay I was going on about bloody conflicting perspectives and you're not meant to do that because thats the old syllabus! But competing is kind of like conflicting? Oh sheeet what have I done

It honestly overlaps a fair bit hey!! I wouldn't worry about it, I reckon it would still relate to the question quite nicely ;D